History Review YE

Question 1

King John of England was forced to sign this charter of rights in 1215?

Answer 1

Magna Carta

Question 2

This French monarch solidified much of England under his rule?

Answer 2

Willium the conquere

Question 3

The 100-year War was fought between what two nations?

Answer 3

England and France

Question 4

A mode of new ideas in education, art, science,… is called?

Answer 4

Renaissance

Question 5

The center of the Renaissance grew in what modern-day nation?

Answer 5

italy

Question 6

The legal principle that protected every freeman from arbitrary arrest, imprisonment and other legal actions except by authorized legal judgement is called:

Answer 6

Due procces

Question 7

The practice of selling Church offices is called:

Answer 7

simony

Question 8

This family became one of the biggest names in Europe during the Renaissance era beginning with the banking industry:

Answer 8

Medici

Question 9

One of the principal cities of the Renaissance era specializing in the textile industry was:

Answer 9

florance

Question 10

Renaissance” means:

Answer 10

the revival of art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries.

Question 11

This woman was executed in her effort to unite France under one king:

Answer 11

King Charles lV

Question 12

The artist who painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was:

Answer 12

Michaelangelo

Question 13

Who was the true “Renaissance Man”?

Answer 13

Leonardo Da Vinci

Question 14

This Dutch humanist wrote In Praise of Folly:

Answer 14

Erasmus

Question 15

The everyday language of ordinary people is called:

Answer 15

Vernacular

Question 16

The Author of the Canterbury Tales is?

Answer 16

Chaucer

Question 17

This Italian humanist wrote on one man’s journey from Hell to Heaven:

Answer 17

Dante

Question 18

The advance in education was due to this invention:

Answer 18

printing press

Question 19

The culmination of religious wars during the Renaissance era was called:

Answer 19

The crusades

Question 20

The center of Renaissance Italy was:

Answer 20

Florance

Question 21

The earliest translation of the Bible into Latin was done by:

Answer 21

Jerome

Question 22

This man is known as the “Father of Humanism”

Answer 22

Petrarch

Question 23

An intellectual movement focus on the “worldly” subjects rather than strictly religious issues?

Answer 23

humanism

Question 24

The author of The Prince whose literary work served as a guide to how rulers and nobility maintained or grew into power was:

Answer 24

Niccolo Machiavelli’s

Question 25

This Dutch painter was known for mastering the art of oil painting:

Answer 25

van Eyck

Question 26

The German “Leonardo” who also painted the Praying Hands:

Answer 26

Durer

Question 27

Michelangelo’s sculpture David was seen as a symbol of this city:

Answer 27

Strength, courage, youthful
confidence

Question 28

The subject of the greatest art theft in history was:

Answer 28

mona lisa

Question 29

What book and chapter of the Bible did Shakespeare translate from Latin into English?

Answer 29

psalms 46

Question 30

This astronomer lost his nose due to a duel and measured the rotation of the planets based upon mathematics:

Answer 30

Tycho Brahe

Question 31

This astronomer discovered that the Earth moves around the Sun in an elliptical pattern:

Answer 31

Kepler

Question 32

This astronomer was tried by the Inquisition for heresy and supported the Copernican theory of the universe through the use of his own telescope:

Answer 32

Galileo